congeal
verb (used with or without object)
to change from a soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing.
is congealing
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present progressiveof congeal (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But the most common complaint I’ve heard is that Don Draper has failed to progress as a character and is congealing into a grim, awful man.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2013
Each of these books, in its way, suggests the degree in which man's hope is congealing into man's fate.
From Time Magazine Archive
If she gives you her hand, it quite freezes you; her kiss turns you to ice too; her smile is congealing.
From Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey
"But it is past, the glory is congealing, The fervor of the heart grows dead and dim; I gaze all night upon a whitewashed ceiling, And catch no glimpses of the Seraphim."
From Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble
It is because blood is congealing and growing poorer everywhere, while instinct grows and develops.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge
